Minnesota Experience
Season 3, Episode 15: Armed with Language
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Minnesota was home to a little-known military intelligence school during WWII that trained Japanese Americans be to translators. Primarily recruited from concentration camps on the West Coast, these men and women, served while many of their families remained imprisoned. For their efforts it is said that they "shortened the Pacific War by two years and saved possibly a million American lives."
All Episodes - Season 3
Episode 1
Citizen
Episode 2
Lost Duluth I
Episode 3
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
Episode 4
The Past Is Alive Within Us: The U.S.- Dakota Conflict
Episode 5
Stalag Luft III: One Man's Story
Episode 6
Coming to Mni Sota
Episode 7
Stories Under The Stones
Episode 8
Dakota Conflict
Episode 9
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
Episode 10
Trailheads: The Oregon Trail's Origins
Episode 11
Girl from Birch Creek
Episode 12
Lost Twin Cities I
Episode 13
Minnesota: A History of the Land
Episode 14
Return to Skid Row
Episode 15
Armed with Language